ORNAMENTAL BRIDGE AT BLAKESWARE 70 METRES NORTH OF WIDFORD LODGE

ORNAMENTAL BRIDGE AT BLAKESWARE 70 METRES NORTH OF WIDFORD LODGE, WARE ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1176924
Date first listed:: 19-Sep-1984
List Entry Name:: ORNAMENTAL BRIDGE AT BLAKESWARE 70 METRES NORTH OF WIDFORD LODGE
Statutory Address:: ORNAMENTAL BRIDGE AT BLAKESWARE 70 METRES NORTH OF WIDFORD LODGE, WARE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1176924
Date first listed:: 19-Sep-1984
List Entry Name:: ORNAMENTAL BRIDGE AT BLAKESWARE 70 METRES NORTH OF WIDFORD LODGE
Statutory Address 1:: ORNAMENTAL BRIDGE AT BLAKESWARE 70 METRES NORTH OF WIDFORD LODGE, WARE ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: ORNAMENTAL BRIDGE AT BLAKESWARE 70 METRES NORTH OF WIDFORD LODGE, WARE ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Widford
National Grid Reference:: TL 40634 15924

Details

TL 41 NW WIDFORD WARE ROAD (north side)

1/2 Ornamental Bridge at Blakesware - 70 metres N of Widford Lodge

GV II

Bridge. C19, for the Gosselin family, probably by George Devey who rebuilt Blakesware 1876-9. Red brick with moulded limestone dressings. A single arched road bridge over the River Ash - on the line of the old road to Ware. A 3 brick semi-circular arch with humped parapet. The curved parapet brickwork courses are struck from the arch centrepoint. Ogee weathered moulded heavy stone copings. Arch flanked by square pilaster piers with 2 stone offsets and square moulded caps. Outswept quadrant abbutments with stone copings curving down to low square piers with moulded stone copings. Part of a picturesque group with Widford Lodge at this entrance to the park of Blakesware.

Listing NGR: TL4063415924

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 160042
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.